Monthly Archives: April 2007

Spring is officially here, and we’re going to do some spring cleaning at Calendar QA. We’ll start with a Test Day Tomorrow on May 1st. On Thursday, we’ll hold a QA Work Session to resolve the growing number of “QA Discussion Needed” and “QA Wanted” bugs.

The QA Work Session will take place at 14:00 UTC time in the #calendar-qa IRC channel. The Test Day tomorrow will start at the usual 13:00 UTC, you can always find more information on the test day at our Test Day Wiki.

Every test we run and every bug we verify brings us that much closer to our 0.5 release. Thank you very much for your help. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow in #calendar-qa.

Right now, we know what went wrong with bug 377641 and hope to have a fix for this today. The status of bug 372287 is still unclear to us, since we are still trying to build Sunbird from a Mac OS X 10.3 box, which would allow us to diagnose the problem. Therefore we have decided two things:

We will release RC1 for Linux and Windows once bug 377641 has been fixed. That will give most of you the chance to pound on those builds and identify potential last-minute blockers, while we are trying to fix the Mac OS X 10.3 bug.

If no other blockers arise from RC1, we will release 0.5 once bug 377641 gets fixed. If new blockers rise, we will likely release a 2nd release candidate (RC2).

Hi guys,
I’m sitting here in Hamburg on the Calendar developers face-to-face meeting together with Clint, Matthew, Philipp, Daniel, Mickey, Christian, Ulf, Andreas, Stephan, Thomas and Berend and while we discussed our plans for the upcoming releases, we noticed that we had a great increase in download numbers in the last week:

Lightning download numbers:

total: 248406 (since the creation of the extension on March 15, 2006)

last week: 47102

So we got nearly 20% of all downloads in the last week. These numbers come from addons.mozilla.org only, so they do not include all the downloads from people downloading Lightning directly from the Lightning project page.

So the Google Calendar Provider extension is really taking off. We attribute this increase mainly to an article describing a sync functionality of Lightning via Google Calendar. This article was mentioned on Slashdot and Digg.

Hi guys,
we’re coming closer to the 0.5 every day and are just a handful of blocker bugs away from the release. The most notable fix in the last weeks was the fix for bug 368982 (visual enhancements to the event boxes – screenshots are in the bug). With this patch our views look much better and modern, where before they were pretty dull. With all the new stuff going in, it would be great if you could help us test all the new features on the upcoming testday. But finally here’s the list of fixed bugs since the last status update:

I apologize for the late notice, but the Calendar-QA effort needs to get its test day schedule back on track. With only blocking defects going into the code base, now is the time to turn a critical eye toward these recent builds. We need to alert developers to any critical “stop ship” defects we find. And to find them, we need your help at the test day.

Drop by #Calendar-QA and join the bug hunt tomorrow. If you can’t make it tomorrow, we hope to see you at some point before the end of the week (Drop in for our QA Chat).

For tomorrow’s test day we are going to drive it based on the testing recommendations at our Calendar Todo List. I will put together the standard test day wiki page later today. Thanks for your help.

Folks,
We’re continuing our march towards the 0.5 release. We’re a little behind the previously posted schedule, as we’ve still got some blockers left to resolve. However, we’re still in a code and string freeze state, except for the remaining blockers. Any checkins unrelated to those blockers need to be approved by myself or mvl before landing.
Once we have these last few bugs squashed, we’ll post an updated schedule for performing fully functional tests (FFTs) and for testing release candidates (RCs).
Thank you for your continued patience, support, testing and bug reporting. With your help 0.5 can be our most solid release yet.